"Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we dreamed it."

"In 1881, Edison built electricity generating stations at Pearl Street in Manhattan and Holborn in London. Within a year, he was selling electricity as a commodity. A year later, the first electric motors were driving manufacturing machinery. Yet by 1900, less than 5% of mechanical drive power in American factories was coming from electric motors. The age of steam lingered."

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

"Controlling fires is an enormously difficult challenge. Our research has shown that by applying large electric fields we can suppress flames very rapidly. We're very excited about the results of this relatively unexplored area of research."

"Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound."

"And fire a mine in China, here With sympathetic gunpowder."

"It seems ridiculous to argue that because a thing is imponderable to Science, therefore it cannot be called matter. Electricity is "immaterial," in the sense that its molecules are not subject to perception and experiment; yet it may be — and Occultism says it is — atomic; therefore it is matter. But even supposing it were unscientific to speak of it in such terms, once Electricity is called in Science a source of Energy, Energy simply, and a Force — where is that Force or that Energy which can be thought of without thinking of matter? p. 137"

"Col. Olcott, was taken to task for asserting in one of his lectures that Electricity is matter. Such, nevertheless, is the teaching of the Occult Doctrine. "Force," "Energy," may be better names for it, so long as European Science knows so little about its true nature; yet matter it is, as much as Ether is matter, since it is as atomic, though indeed several removes from Ether. p. 136"

"Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable."

"Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty."

"It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse."

"Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate."

"Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed."

"LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell: I feel a need… a need for speed."

"In Einstein’s corrected formula m has the value m=\frac {{m}_}{\sqrt} where the “rest mass” m0 represents the mass of a body that is not moving and c is the speed of light, which is about 3×105 km⋅sec−1 or about 186,000 mi⋅sec−1."

"But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty."

"Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions."

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"I just want to fly: put your arms around me baby, I just want to fly."

"One way remains—by air: by air a way we'll try; Pardon the bold adventure, Jove most high!"

"Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo."

"All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure."

"Lest I make the people fly off from that city like a wild dove from its tree, lest I make them fly around like a bird over its well-founded nest."

"Aku: Samurai fool! Your efforts are in vain again! This gateway to the past is once more beyond your-Ey? You can fly?!"

"Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting."

"Flying is years and years of utter boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror"

"Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly?"

"Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along."

"Of course the vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it."

"The person who merely watches the flight of a bird gathers the impression that the bird has nothing to think of but the flapping of its wings. As a matter of fact this is a very small part of its mental labor. To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening. If I take this piece of paper, and after placing it parallel with the ground, quickly let it fall, it will not settle steadily down as a staid, sensible piece of paper ought to do, but it insists on contravening every recognized rule of decorum, turning over and darting hither and thither in the most erratic manner, much after the style of an untrained horse. Yet this is the style of steed that men must learn to manage before flying can become an everyday sport. The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it."

"A flight ticket is a paper or electronic document that contains passenger information as well as flight information, including origin and destination, flight time, arrival time, and flight number."

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man."

"Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I."

"Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance."

"William Thomson"

"Steam engine"

"James Clerk Maxwell"

"Josiah Willard Gibbs"

"Entropy (thermodynamics)"

"Rudolf Clausius"

"Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot"

"Ludwig Boltzmann"

"Zeroth: You must play the game. First: You can't win. Second: You can't break even. Third: You can't quit the game."

"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

"It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Sooner or later everything turns to shit."